Bitcoin Mining Setup

While mining with unsupported hardware might be possible, it will almost certainly be unprofitable. Also, keep in mind that our support team will not be resolving issues related to unsupported hardware.

You can use an existing account if you have one.

Individual hardware manufacturers may have specific settings requirements and different settings interfaces. Please follow their official documentation when setting up your miners. This also applies to cloud mining services.

The login credentials needed for your miner look like this (please change userName and workerName according to your account information):

Your miner must be connected to one of our pool servers listed below. Remember to configure the credentials for each device. The userID is mandatory and is used to pair the device with your account. Password is not used, it can be anything. UserID consists of userName (same as your account name) and workerName (any device identifier). If workerName is empty, [auto] worker is created for you. We recommend connecting each mining device with a separate workerName for efficient monitoring.

Braiins Pool servers are located all around the world. For better connection and lower latency, please use one of the location-specific URLs instead of the general URL.

Configure your devices to start mining on Braiins Pool.

Set old slushpool.com addresses (contains slushpool in the address) if you’re using BOS version older than 22.08.1 for successful application of 0% mining fee on Braiins Pool. Old addresses will work indefinitely. Set new braiins.com addresses otherwise.

For Stratum V2 connection guide see the Stratum V2 manual section. You need to run our Braiins OS firmware which supports Stratum V2 (stock manufacturing firmware currently does not support this new protocol).

Set old slushpool.com addresses (contains slushpool in the address) if you’re using BOS version older than 22.08.1 for successful application of 0% mining fee on Braiins Pool. Old addresses will work indefinitely. Set new braiins.com addresses otherwise.

Example configuration

Let’s say there is a miner with username bigMiner and his worker is named strongDevice. Moreover, this miner specifically chose to be connected to the European servers. The configuration information for this miner would look like the following (configure accordingly):

To collect your reward you have to set up a payout address in the Funds > Wallets menu and define a payout rule in the Funds > Account detail. Once you reach the minimum threshold, your rewards will be sent there. You can start mining even without this address being registered, but it is highly recommended that you register it straight away.

If you do not have an address yet, you need to get a wallet first. We recommend the Trezor Hardware Wallet for maximum security. Other usable wallets are listed on Bitcoin.org.

Alternatively, if you decide to use Lightning payouts instead, you can do so with Braiins Pool. Make sure to use a Lightning wallet which is capable of providing a Lightning address to you. Lightning payouts requested via invoice are not supported.

Open your Dashboard on the Mining tab for the coin that you are mining. Then check your hash rate in the Recent Hash Rate graph section below. Please be patient; it can take up to an hour until you see the full hashing power of your newly connected device. You can also look through our article “How to check if I’m mining” in Troubleshooting section.